Identifying cheap energy for the future

Month: February 2014

The conventional wisdom over the last year or so has been predictable: cheap, plentiful natural gas would be our salvation, particularly in markets like the US which have large reserves of previously untapped natural gas. Articles like this one from… Read More ›

In studying a material that prevents marine life from sticking to the bottom of ships, researchers led by UNC-Chapel Hill chemist Joseph DeSimone have identified a surprising replacement for the only inherently flammable component of today’s lithium-ion batteries: the electrolyte…. Read More ›

Massive efforts are underway to utilise heat from the earth—some of them very successful such as the Riff Valley geothermal plant in Kenya that we wrote about over a year ago. But Geothermal companies all over the world are trying… Read More ›

The beginning of a new year always sees a flood of statistics rounding up the previous year’s investment levels and progress towards milestones. Interestingly, the end of 2013 has signalled that the metrics we use for evaluating the scale and… Read More ›